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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






2. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






3. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






4. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






5. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






6. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






7. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






8. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






9. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






10. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






11. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






12. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






13. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






14. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






15. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






16. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






17. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






18. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






19. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






20. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






21. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






22. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






23. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






24. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






25. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






26. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






27. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






28. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






29. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






30. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






31. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






32. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






33. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






34. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






35. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






36. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






37. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






38. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






39. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






40. Any continuous series of schedule activities connected with logical relationships in a project schedule network diagram






41. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






42. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






43. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






44. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






45. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






46. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






47. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






48. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






49. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






50. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives